NIBBLES OF REALITY
‘If you’ve ever dreamed it, it’s real. If you’ve ever felt it, it’s real. If you’ve ever experienced it, was it real? Are the place you occupy in the world and that way you think no longer the same as before? Do you get lost in the onslaught of information today? Do you no longer know whether that voice in your head is stable? Take a nibble of reality before all that gets to you! Perhaps you’re wondering how you got here; I don’t know. I don’t even exist; I’m just a voice that comes to life in your head through words. But from there I can invite you to explore dissociation, the construction of the story and illusion, and that may even include a panoramic visit to the uncanny and other places yet to be deciphered. And no prior experience is needed! Liminal instructions to play in reality: reality twists. Reality expands. Reality blurs. Reality breaks. The reality we build. Now we’re where things continue (talking through the voice that reads in your head), a group (and perhaps, too, an unreachable place) made up of ex-under-twenties which is generated from restlessness and curiosity through the museum and its practices.’
Where Things Continue is a group made up of former participants in the youth programmes with an interest in culture, art and community work. The project aims to redefine the relationships with the museum by fostering its members’ self-management and getting them involved in building the programming targeted at young people.
Where Things Go On is a group formed by former participants of youth programmes with an interest in culture, art and community work.
Picture: Sue Ponce.